# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-purdom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:11:04.710Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-purdom"
name: "William Purdom"
slug: "william-purdom"
description: "William Purdom was a British plant explorer. After being apprenticed as a gardener at Brathay Hall in the English Lake district, he traveled to London to work at the Hugh Low, Enfield Nursery, then onto the Veitch establishment at Coombe Wood. In 1902, Purdom took up a position as a gardener at Kew Botanic Garden soon becoming promoted to a sub-foreman (leading-hand) position. Purdom became heavily involved with early Union activities particularly promoting the rights of junior workers which eventually led to his unjustified dismissal. Despite being a bane to the, then, Kew Director, David Prain, the latter recognized the talents of William Purdom and recommended his employee as being very suitable as a plant collector for a joint venture by Veitch and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University to the northern provinces of China in 1909."
tagline: "British botanist (1880-1921)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1880-04-10"
deathDate: "1921-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.25
  momentum:             2
  historical:           5.469150666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%91%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BC%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Пёрдом, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Purdom"
    title: "William Purdom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Purdom"
    title: "William Purdom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%BB%89%C2%B7%E7%8F%80%E5%BE%B7%E5%A7%86"
    title: "威廉·珀德姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Purdom"
    title: "William Purdom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BC"
    title: "Вільям Пердом"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8017134"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump